AI/LLM Engineer

About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a hands-on AI engineering role at a fast-growing, Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered sales automation for distributors and manufacturers. You will work across the full stack to design and ship end-to-end AI systems that directly drive product growth and customer impact. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build, deploy, and optimize AI agents end-to-end across the full stack. - Work with embeddings and fine-tune LLMs for classification and reranking tasks.

- Optimize algorithms for product search and discovery. - Apply RLHF and DPO techniques to align LLMs with human feedback. - Build data pipelines to process large-scale unstructured data efficiently. - Improve backend scalability, stability, and performance. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 2+ years of engineering experience, with substantive AI/LLM or backend-oriented depth (not frontend-focused). - Strong experience with NLP, LLMs, embeddings, ML, and AI-powered applications.

- Demonstrated experience building and scaling data and ML pipelines, including large-scale unstructured data. - Hands-on experience applying RLHF or DPO to align LLMs with human feedback. - Full-stack development skills using React, TypeScript, and Next.js. - Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and infrastructure as code (Terraform). - Strong computer science fundamentals.

- Ability and willingness to work on-site in Munich on a regular basis. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Salary range: 80,000 to 130,000 EUR annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. This is not a remote or heavily hybrid position; regular in-person presence is expected.

Source listing: ashby_clera